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KRASCHENINNIKOFF, STEPHAN PETROVICH. The History of Kamkatschatka and the Kurilski Islands, with the Countries Adjacent . . . Translated into English by James Grieve, M.D. 5 engraved plates with 7 subjects; 2 folding maps. [8], 280, [8] pages. 4to,

KRASCHENINNIKOFF, STEPHAN PETROVICH. The History of Kamkatschatka and the Kurilski Islands, with the Countries Adjacent . . . Translated into English by James Grieve, M.D. 5 engraved plates with 7 subjects; 2 folding maps. [8], 280, [8] pages. 4to, modern .25 calf gilt; engraved matter foxed, offsetting onto facing pages. Gloucester R. Raikes for T. Jefferys, London, 1764 E800-1200 FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, abridged from the 1755 original edition in Russian of the first scientific account of the region. The chapter on Russian America(pages 44- 55) " . . . is one of the earliest printed narratives about Alaska and the Aleutian Islands" (Lada-Mocarski); the English edition does not include the plate of a native Alaskan found in the Russian original. Hill, page 166; Howes K265; Lada-Mocarski 12 note; Sabin 38301.

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